Wire spring-clip.



No. 818,905. PATENTED APR. 24, 1906.

G. W. MoGILL.

WIRE SPRING CLIP.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 7, 1905.

IIE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 24', 1 906.

Application filed September 7,1905. Serial No- 277,861-

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. MoGrLL, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Riverdale-on-the-Hudson, in the county of New York andState of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inWire Spring-Clips, of which the followingis a s ecification.

his invention relates to spring-clips made of wire, having for theirobject the holdin together of loose sheets of pa er, prints, ant l suchlike material, and providbs an improvement therein whereby theresilience or spring of its clamping members when impaired by usage orother causes may be immediately restored by the user without trouble tohimself or injury to the cli In the accompanying drawings, orming partof this specification, and wherein like letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts, there are illustrated some of many ways in whichthe improvement may be carried into effect, it being understood that theunderlying rinci le thereof common to each ma be em odie in other formsof the clip an still be within the scope of the invention, whichfundamentally consists in a wire spring-clip having a dplurality ofclamping members so dispose therein that at the pleasure of the user andwithout injury to the clip two of such members may alternately be set tobear against either side of a third member with the object of restoringtheir clamping resilience.

In the drawings all six of the figures are views in elevation of formsof the clip, each differing more or less in eneral co ation, but allhaving embodled therein the important features herein set forth andhaving other features common to all.

In the drawin s the wire composing the clip is shown fol ed in manner toprovide it' three clamping members, consisting of a central body memberA and two wing members B B of equal dimension, disposed one on each sideof the body member and having the terminals Z Z of the wire providinthem set in resilient bearing against one si e of the lower part of thebody member A.

In Figure 1 the body member A is provided by folding the composing wirefrom each en upon a central section of it in manner to provide a Tconfiguration in reverse, the head of the T providing the lower ortransversely-set part of the body member, with the wires providing theT-shank projected centrally above it and folded laterally outward fromeach other into the two win members B B, having looped terminals Z setin resilient bearing against one side of the lower or transverse part ofthe body member A.

The construction of F igl 2 is practically the same as Fig. 1, theexception eing that the terminals of the composing wire instead of beincarried up and set within the members B as in Fig. 1, are carried up andset outside those members.

Fig. 3 differs in construction from Fi 1 to the extent of having thebody member A folded in trian ular formation instead of the reverse Tconfiguration of the latter figure, such open angular formation beingmore readily provided by machinery than the close T configuration.

In Fi 4 the body member A presents a diamon -like or rhombusconfiguration and the wing members B B that of the numeral 8.

In Fig. 5 the body member presents a configuration similar to that ofFig, 4, the win members a polygonal configuration, an theirlooper-terminals that of rhomboids.

In Fig. 6 the terminals 1 l of the members B B instead of having loopformation, as in the other figures, are each provided with an openangular formation and are set in the same plane, one angle within theother, and in that position bear against the same side of the member A.

The clip is operated by inserting the material being clip ed between themember A and the free en s of the members B B, where it will be held andclamped by the resilience of all the members.

When from constant usage the insertion between the clips clampingmembers of excessively bulky material or through being subjected toother excessive strain the resilience of these members becomes impaired,it may be readily restored b3 the user sprin in laterally the terminals0 the members B B around the member A to its opposite side, againstwhich they may remain in springbearing, if desired, or be sprung back tothe former side with their resilience revived by the movement and whichmovement may be repeated indefinitely Without injury to the clip. Inpracticing this operation, with the wing members B B: fashioned as shownin Fig. 6, their angular terminals are pressed transversely out of lanewith each other and then sprung lateral y around the edges of the memberA, as in the other forms.

The up er looped portions of the wing members B B, provided by thelateral outward'fol'ding from the axis of the body member of the wirescomposing them are, as

shown in all the figures of the drawings, provided'; withareassufliciently large relatively to admit of this operationbeing putinpractice= Without straining the normal springset of. the members as awhole or. impairing thenormal lateral resilient converging of theirlower parts. The upward folding-of the terminals M of the wing membersdouble thepoints of bearing between them and the body- -member-a-nd:guard thelends of the wire composing; the clipiand prevent them frompunc-- timing and. defacing the papers or other ma 2i Arspringrclip ofthe. character herein de-.

scribed having the wire roviding its clampingmembersso disposed thereinthat two of such members may be moved laterally around the ed esof athirdmemberand set alternately to ear: against eitherside of suchthird'member.

3.. A Wire. spring-clip of the character-de-.

scribed having three clamping members so disposed therein that two .0themarein constant'resili'ent-bearingwith the third and are. adapted tobe moved a art laterally and sprung from one-surface o the third memberto itsop osite, surface so as to alternately beariagainsb either of'such surfaces, for the purposes herein described.

4. A s ring-clip of the character described having t e. wire composin itfolded in manner to provide it three 0 amping members consistingofaicentral body member extending. in part crosswise. theclip, and twowing members disposedone orneach side of such bodymember and havingtheirlower terminals setin'the same. plane and adapted to bear, in. thatposition, against either side of thebody member, and be moved fromeither side of. such member to its opposite side.

5. Aspring-clip of the character described in whichthewirecomposing itis folded into three unitary clamping members consistin oiatransversely-dis sed. body member an two wing members p aced one on eachside of I the body member in manner to admit of their lower terminalsbeing alternately moved apart and sprung from one surface of the bodymember to its opposite surface in alternately bringing the terminalsjointly into resilient bear1ng against one or other of such surfaces.

6'. A spring-wire clip of the character described having the Wirecomposing it folded at its central part into a body member transvefiselydisposed therein and having the free en such, ody member in. oppositedirections andthence downward across. its lower; part in manner toprovide the clip" two. spring-bearing win members disposed one. on eachside 'of the ody. member and; adapted. bear against it.

'7'. Ina spring-clip of the character described, Wherein the wirecomposing it is folded into three unitary clam ing members consisting ofatransversely- 'sposed body member and two win -members.(plaoed' one oneach side of the axis of the be y member in manner to admit of theirlower terminalsbeing alternately moved a art and sprung from one surfaceof: the bod member toits opposite surface in alternately bringing theterminals jointly into resilient bearing againstone or other of suchsurfaces, means. admitr ting of such manipulation of the wing mem berswithout straining the normal set of their looped upper parts orimpairing the lateral converging resilience of their lower terminals.

8. In a spring-clip of the character described, the upper portions ofthe wing members B, B, provided with areas sufficiently large,relatively, to admit of their lower extremities being moved apartlaterally and sprung from one surface of the body member to its oppositesurface without straining the normal s ring set of such membersorimpairing t e lateral converging resilience of their lower parts.

9. A s ring-clip of the-character-described having t e wire composing itfolded ina manner'to provide three clampi members consisting of acentral body mem er extend- {arts of the wire carried: outward; from IIOing in part crosswise the clip with the wires composing it foldedoutward in the same plane from the axis of the clip and merging into twowing members disposed one on each side of such axis, with the wiresproviding them converging downwardly and having their terminals foldedback upwardlyand set in spring-bearing with one side of the body member.v

10. A springclip of the character de scribed having the wire composingit folded in a manner to provide three clampin -members consisting of acentral body mem or extending in part crosswise the clip with the wirecomposing it folded outward laterally from the axis oftheclip, and inthe-same plane, and merging into two dependent wing members of equaldimensions set ad'acent to each other and bearing against t e bodymember at a plurality of its crossings, and having the terminals of thewires carried back upwardly and in the same plane across thehbody memberand in spring-bearing wit it.

Signed atRiverdale-on-the-Hudson, in the county of New York and State ofNew York, this 24th day of Au st, A. D. 1905.

G ORGE W. MOGILL.

Witnesses:

W. HARRY MoGILL, CHAS. E. WARREN.

